Sunday, July 24, 2011

Federal Employees More Likely to Become Zombies Than Get Fired



If you want job security, the federal government is the place to be. USA Today reported the following:


Death — rather than poor performance, misconduct or layoffs — is the primary threat to job security at the Environmental Protection Agency, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Management and Budget and a dozen other federal operations.

The federal government fired 0.55% of its workers in the budget year that ended Sept. 30 — 11,668 employees in its 2.1 million workforce. Research shows that the private sector fires about 3% of workers annually for poor performance, says John Palguta, former research chief at the federal
Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles federal firing disputes.

When job security is at a premium, the federal government remains the place to work for those who want to avoid losing a job. The job security rate for all federal workers was 99.43% last year and nearly 100% for those on the job more than a few years.



Some of these workers are so entrenched; I believe they’ve become zombies: mindlessly following the dictates of the bureaucratic machine; feeding on the life blood of taxpayers; cannibalizing businesses with their ridiculous regulations. I guess it’s better to be the living dead, than unemployed.






Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-07-18-fderal-job-security_n.htm?loc=interstitialskip

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